Contemporary Visual Poetry

Fiona Becket is professor of contemporary poetics in the School of English, University of Leeds. She has written books and articles on aspects of modernist literature, visual poetry, and poetics.

• AcknowledgementsIllustrationsChapter 1 Introduction Reclaiming Vision Chapter 2 Textual Bodies: Visual Poetry as Feminist PraxisChapter 3 The “Multiple Body”: Visual Poetry’s Natural HistoriesChapter 4 Eye Witness and the Curated Language of OthersChapter 5 Computational Environments and the Extended PoetBibliographyIndex

Contemporary Visual Poetics not only offers an important rethinking of the history of “extended poetics,” as its author Fiona Becket names it, but breaks essential new ground across technologies which many critics still feel unsure of how to read. This book provides a vocabulary and a profound understanding of “posthuman” existence played out in the avant-garde poem, mapping new ways that such work is impacting its society and environment. Becket's connection of her core investigation to ecocritical thinking – and therefore our current (we hope not final) emergencies – also makes this intervention timely, even urgent.--Romana Huk, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame, USA